On a chilly day in late 1986, thousands of protesters gathered on the streets of Alma-Ata, then the capital of Soviet Kazakhstan. They were mostly young, and mostly ethnic Kazakh. And they all had one ...

This article originally appeared in the February 1990 issue of Esquire US. To read every Esquire US story ever published, upgrade to All Access. All across the country that year, party functionaries ...

It’s hard to sift history’s judgment from the hot takes, and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s telegram of condolence on the death of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev does little to help. “He ...

Forty-seven years to the day after the United States suffered the then-bloodiest attack on our territory at Pearl Harbor, our nation exited an era of continuous fear of annihilation. From World War II ...

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There's still hope for those who missed out on tickets for Mikhail Gorbachev's 10:30 a.m. speech at the Lied Center for Performing Arts today.Although all 2,276 tickets were claimed 40 minutes after ...

"Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people – which he genuinely was – he increasingly became despised by many within Russia." Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure; his ...

Revered by the West but reviled in Russia, Mikhail Gorbachev’s clashing legacies have cast a long shadow over the Russian Federation’s place in the liberal international order. A 1998 Pizza Hut ...